Beware the Witchfinder A madness had gripped the village, and indeed the whole countryside. Accused of the murder of her husband by witchcraft, Mary Standen had only narrowly been saved from a mob howling for her blood while she lay naked, bound h...
A classic tale of witches, first published in 1951, and based on a real 17th century trial and execution
Seventeenth century England is a place of superstition and fear. Deep in the Forest of Pendle, people have been dying in myster...